History of Howard Community College Volume V 2007 through 2012

History of Howard Community College Volume V 2007 through 2012 By Vladimir G Marinich Professor of Social Sciences Table of Contents Preface ii Introduction The HCC Landscape in 2007 Passing of the Torch .10 The Torch Has Been Passed 16 Parlez-vous? 21 Technologies “R” Us 28 As the Decade Ends .34 The HCC Landscape in 2011-2012 44 “The Undiscovered Country” 56 APPENDIX A Higher Education in Howard County 61 APPENDIX B Fall and Spring Enrollment 73 APPENDIX C Enrollment by Race .74 APPENDIX D Organizational Chart 2007 75 APPENDIX E Chronology of High Schools in Howard County 76 APPENDIX F Howard Community College Student Leaders 2004-Present 77 APPENDIX G Organizational Chart 2011-12 .79 ENDNOTES 80 i Preface This, my last volume of the history of HCC, is put together for my colleagues and for the general reader who may not be familiar with all of the details and ins and outs of the college’s organization and activities, and especially what I call the life of the college I have tried to provide some sense of HCC’s culture and how it has continued and evolved over more than four decades In working on this volume, as with past volumes, I have interviewed staff, delved into HCC’s archives, accessed newspaper articles about the college, and dug through many memos, minutes and reports The Planning, Research, and Organizational Planning (PROD) Office has been very helpful by providing various enrollment data, demographic information, and whatever else I might have needed from them They provided me with charts, as the reader will note in the Appendices, and with good discussion and advice on how to interpret various data I really appreciate their kind help, and I thank – in alphabetic order – Jean Frank, Susan Hellenbrand, and Betsy See Llatetra Brown, Director of Student Life at the college, was ever so helpful in going through a lot of past data to provide me with a list of student leaders over the past several years It made sense to me to have some mention of students since that is what we are about In other words, the leadership of the college is not just the employed staff, but it is also the student leaders who plan and carry out the many activities at the school, who participate in any number of college committees alongside the faculty and staff, and keep the college informed through their newspaper ii As I had mentioned in previous volumes, my dear colleague Dawn Malmberg of the Social Sciences/Teacher Education/Allied Health Office worked absolute magic in getting the various charts and illustrations into this volume I continue to marvel at how capably and easily she seems to this, and I thank her so much Barbara Livieratos reviewed this volume, as she had done with previous ones, and offered grammatical, style, editing, and a number of other elements of advice and suggestions that were always helpful Barbara, I owe ya This last entry of what was a multi-year project was made possible by the kind support of our academic vice president, Dr Sharon Pierce, and by the college president Dr Kathleen Hetherington I have said this before, but I so again, without their support and trust, this endeavor would never have been possible For that, and so much more, I am grateful to them iii Introduction This volume constitutes the last entry of the history of Howard Community College, at least as written by this author This document is Volume V and it covers the life of the college from 2007 up to the summer of 2012, or as close as the data could provide For those who might have read the previous volumes, they focused primarily with the years of the college’s presidential tenures Volume I covered the formative years, starting with the mid 1960’s when there was no HCC, but plans for a community college to serve the county were under way This volume was also devoted to the life of the college during the tenure of its first president, Dr Alfred J Smith, Jr., a period of 12 years The next two volumes covered the sixteen-year period during which time the president of HCC was Dr Dwight Burrill So far, this was the longest tenure of any of the college’s four presidents Because of the length of his tour of duty, Volumes II and III deal with the first and second halves of his presidency Dr Mary Ellen Duncan was the third president of HCC,i and the college’s history during her tenure is found in Volume IV Dr Duncan was president for 10 years, from 1998 to 2007 Dr Kathleen Hetherington was appointed as the fourth president of HCC in 2007 Thus, the life of the college beginning in 2007 proceeds to where this, the author’s final volume, ends i There was an interim president for a little less than a year – from September, 1997, until June, 1998 The reader is asked to note that the phrase, “the life of the college,” has been used a few times This is deliberate HCC’s history is more than legislative issues, policies, interactions between the college and various local, state and federal agencies, etc It is about students and the everyday activities, programs, interactions, challenges, and initiatives of faculty, staff, and administrative personnel that are the life of the college, as well as the presence of HCC in the community Howard Community College is not the only institution of higher education in the county So, it may be of interest to the reader to learn a bit about the history of higher education in the county, to complete the picture, so to speak To this end, an additional chapter on this subject has been added to this volume So, on then to as close to the present, that is the summer of 2012 as of this writing, as we can get The HCC Landscape in 2007 It is useful to put the college into the context of what the surrounding world was like in 2007 On the world and national scene, the United States was still involved in Iraq and General David Patraeus, an expert in counter insurgency was appointed the top commander in Iraq On this side of the Atlantic, a deranged individual shot and killed two students at Virginia Tech on April 16 In the realm of our nation’s economy, the housing bubble burst and the mortgage crisis surfaced very quickly And in politics, then U.S Senator, Barack Obama began his campaign in February for the Democratic nomination for President Later that year TIME magazine named Russia’s Vladimir Putin as its Person of the Year Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone and the clamor for such products erupted J.K Rowling published her last Harry Potter book By this time, she was one of the richest women in the world In sports, there was enough scandal to go around Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants broke Hank Aaron’s homerun record, but was embroiled in the steroid scandal, and Atlanta Falcon’s quarterback Michael Vick admitted to funding illegal dog fighting In film, the Oscar for best picture went to “The Departed,” and on TV, we began to see more and more weekly drama such as the CSI series programs on the screen TV news programs also began to provide more news items about obesity in America as a national problem Closer to home, the population of Maryland was about 5.6 million and that of Howard County was around 275,000 The county’s economic health encouraged Trader Joe’s supermarket to locate an 11,000 square-foot grocery at the Gateway Overlook shopping Center.1 The County Executive, elected in 2006, was Ken Ulman, the first native Columbian to achieve that office There were 12 public high schools and private high schools in the county that fed into the collegeii, not to forget out-of-county, out-of-state, international, and any number of home-schooled youngsters who came to HCC The physical layout of the college in 2007 consisted of several buildings They were the Clark Library Building, the Nursing Building, Administration Building (later to be named McCuan Hall), Smith Theatre, Instructional Lab Building (subsequently named English/Languages Building),iii and the Horowitz Center for the Visual and Performing Arts Across the “lake” were the Athletic and Fitness Center and the Children’s Learning Center The Hickory Ridge Building housed the Mathematics and Continuing Education Divisions, and there were the satellite facilities of the Laurel Learning Center and Gateway Building We were big! By March, 2007 the Rouse Company Foundation Student Services Hall (the RCF Building) was opened and the quad was completed But there was more to the physical appearance of the college than just the buildings By 2007, the area next to the Athletic and Fitness Center had a renovated track and new athletic fields, and to the north between the Center and the rest of the college was a better cared for pond, next to which were the outdoor Dreier Stage and the Lundy Bridge that crossed the stream The Crist Fountain of Inspiration further beautified the pond, and the Quad was graced by the long fountain in front of what would later be named the Clark ii The two private high schools are Chapelgate Christian Academy and Glenelg Country School The ILB/ELB Building would be named subsequently after Dr Mary Ellen Duncan, and the Administration Building would be named McCuan Hall after Patrick and Jill McCuan iii Library Building The west entrance to the RCF Building had a circular approach for vehicles and the sidewalks were adorned by a series of plaques with quotations of famous people The members of the Board of Trustees of the college were: Roger N Caplan Roberta E Dillow Dr Patrick L Huddie Louis G Hutt, Jr Katherine K Rensin T James Truby Mary Beth Tung All of these trustees had a track record of being active in the community, either through their employment in corporations, law practice, consulting services, or having been involved with the college in such areas as the Commission on the Future, or the Howard Community College Educational Foundation Thus, they were well equipped to understand the educational role of HCC and its place in the community Dr Mary Ellen Duncan was in her last six months as president Her immediate team included the following personnel: Lynn C Coleman, Vice President of Administration and Finance Thomas J Glaser, Vice President of Information Technology Farida Guzdar, Executive Assistant to the President Kathleen B Hetherington, Executive Vice President Zoe Irvin, Executive Director of Planning, Research, and Organizational Development Ronald X Roberson, Vice President of Academic Affairs Erin Yun, Director of Board Relations/Special Projects Each of these individuals had considerable experience in their fields that included prior administrative positions at the college or elsewhere Indeed, the sum of experiences was impressive Coleman had been with the college since 1986, Glaser since 2000, Guzdar joined the college in 1989, Hetherington started at the college as Vice President of Student Services in 1999, having many years of prior experience at the Community College of Philadelphia Irvin joined HCC in 1982 as a member of the Mathematics faculty Roberson started at HCC as a member of the Arts and Humanities faculty in 1989, and Erin Yun was with HCC since 2002 The spring 2007 headcount in credit enrollment was 6,734, which was some 300 students more than in the prior spring Online classes were growing The spring 2007 semester had 86 online courses scheduled with 1,129 students taking online classes A decade earlier, the college had offered eight online classes with 60 students enrolled Some of the patterns in enrollment continued; there were more female students than male students and, of all the full-time students, the median age was 19 years old About 55% of the students were identified as “White.” A decade earlier, this group was at a bit over 68% The student population at HCC was growing in not only American-born members of minority groups, but also “foreign-born.” Not only did we have African Americans, Asian Americans, and Hispanics, but also we had students from various African nations, native Asians (with Koreans making up a significant number), and students from various countries in South America and Europe In fact, the college had 139 students representing 40 different countries HCC was certainly becoming more international The college had more students in transfer programs than in occupational programs, and there were several academic programs for special student populations; these were The Frederick K Schoenbrodt Honors Program, the Rouse Scholars Program, and the Silas Craft Collegians Program Each had a program director from the academic area and personnel from the Student Services area to support these programs in functions such as registration, advising, transfer information, etc Entry into each of these programs was selective The Schoenbrodt Honors Dag Hammarskjold was having difficulties with funding, enrollments, and faculty In January 1974 the president of Dag Hammarskjold, Dr Robert McCan wrote that the college had updated its economic model and that “most of the pieces have been put in place, except for the major funding needed to move ahead briskly .”69 By October, the college was into the second year of its 10-year plan to raise $8 million; it raised $1 million And on October 21, 1974, the Baltimore Sun had an article titled, “Columbia College Nears Failure.” Enrollment of international students did not meet expectations and there was some discord among faculty Some were dedicated to innovative course content and a more liberal and flexible relationship between students and faculty while others believed in a more rigorously traditional set of standards and content of courses The Rouse Company’s subsidiary, Howard Research and Development Corporation, which had donated Oakland Manor to the college, got it back and Dag Hammarskjold College closed up Loyola and Johns Hopkins had started in a more modest way in Columbia Both began their operations by offering a limited number of courses Loyola’s presence in Columbia began with classes held in the Banneker Building for a short time and then moving to Sterrett Place as the college’s enrollment grew The courses were graduate-level, mostly in business and education Hopkins started by having classes in several rooms in the Harpers Choice Village Center Some of the early courses were graduate level in Management, Labor Relations, Business, etc By the 1980’s Loyola and Hopkins were well established in Columbia and their enrollments were solid and growing and their focus was on upper division and graduate courses Thus, the combination of these schools and HCC was one where there was little or no competition HCC’s 69 challenge was to attract high school graduates to choose HCC over going to four-year schools to complete their freshman and sophomore years HCC also attracted adult learners; those who had been out of the workforce and wanted to learn skills to get back into it, people who wanted to upgrade their skills, those who were looking to change their careers, those who wanted to get the degree that they had not been able to get in past years, and those who just wanted be in a classroom again The 80’s decade was one that saw HCC’s enrollments grow at an almost constant rate HCC’s relationship with the county was good and the college provided much support to the county’s cultural interests The Smith Theatre was not only the venue for performances but community groups such as Pro Cantare and Candlelight Concerts also used it In the academic area, a significant accomplishment was the development of Honors study HCC’s history professor, Dr Larry had been working on the development of an honors course that would explore the concept of community using Columbia as the model HCC’s Board of Trustees found this to be an exciting and worthwhile project and they supported Madaras by providing him with the necessary resources This course was taught several times and just as important; it was the beginning of the honors program at the college HCC’s community involvement was also on a grand scale In the second half of the 80’s the college was a leading supporter of the Columbia Festival of the Arts and an organizer and sponsor of the equestrian Grand Prix, which was to become the college’s major fundraising event 70 The 90’s was a period of growth and continued academic and cultural service to Columbia and the county In academics, honors courses continued to be taught and HCC introduced the Rouse Scholars Program that was designed to attract and challenge high quality high school graduates The college also created the Rep Stage Company, thus making HCC’s theatre a professional theatrical producing organization The 21st century began with HCC creating the Silas Craft Collegians Program in 2000 This was a program for higher risk students, but that still led to an A.A degree In 2005, the Fred K Schoenbrodt Honors Program was created to serve both full-time and part-time students In addition, by the middle of the decade the college established an International Education program The colleges that continue to be active in Columbia are successful Enrollments are good as are the schools’ facilities, but like most successful schools the enrollments expand faster than spaces Over the years Johns Hopkins’ growth required a major space and the university is currently housed on Alexander Bell Drive Loyola is leasing space on McGaw Road and its facilities consist of 23 classrooms, a number of computer labs, and an enrollment of about 2,000 per semester HCC’s credit enrollment exceeds 10, 000 students Thus, the county and Columbia had colleges that served the community well The community college provided students with the first two years of college before they went on to a senior institution, and HCC did so at a lower cost In addition, HCC had agreements with Hopkins that HCC’s honors students would get very favorable consideration when applying to Hopkins to finish their baccalaureate degrees HCC also provided a large number of non-credit courses as part of its life-long learning program The prevalence of an educated population in Howard County allowed Loyola and Hopkins to offer 71 upper division and graduate courses to residents of the area So, the existing, and surviving colleges pretty much covered most the bases, and then, some The Laurel College Center began in 2001 as a state-designated Regional Higher Education Center Its founders were the county’s community college and Prince Georges Community College A group of four-year schools joined in the partnership These were Morgan State University, Notre Dame of Maryland University, Towson University, the University of Maryland College Park, and the University of Maryland University College While the Center is just across the border in Prince Georges County, residents of Howard County avail themselves of its proximity to homes and work, and make for a smoother transition from a two-year to a four-year school, since several of the four-year schools operate in the Laurel facility This was not the only educational coalition “Through an agreement between Howard, Carroll, and Frederick Community Colleges, students can complete classes and programs in a number of high-demand health care occupations at the new state-ofthe-art Mount Airy College Center for Health Care Education.”70 The early experiences of Antioch and Dag Hammarskjold were unfortunate Antioch’s problem was simply a bad fit with Columbia The city was not a problem area to be resolved but an opportunity to be pursued and, as mentioned before, Antioch’s interests were in social problem solving Dag Hammarskjold was unfortunate in a different way It was an idea whose time had not yet come It would not be for about another two decades that our consciousness would be raised about diversity and globalization, and indeed anyone who follows international events these days will recognize the importance of a global perspective Perhaps if Dag Hammarskjold had started in the late 1990’s the overall climate might have been more favorable for its success But that did not happen and it turned out that Howard Community College at the beginning of 72 the 21st century filled this niche with its program of study abroad, faculty and student exchanges, academic programs focusing on international studies, international business, history of world regions, and general overseas trips designed for the community The success of the various colleges that are in Howard County is a testimonial to the community that supports them With minor exception, James Rouse had it right! 73 APPENDIX B Fall and Spring Enrollment 74 APPENDIX C Enrollment by Race 75 APPENDIX D Organizational Chart 2007 76 APPENDIX E Chronology of High Schools in Howard County 1951 Howard High School 1958 Glenelg 1965 Mt Hebron 1966 Atholton 1971 Wilde Lake 1973 Oakland Mills 1976 Hammond 1977 Centennial 1985 Glenelg Country Schoolxxi 1991 Chapelgate Christian Academyxxii 1994 River Hill 1996 Long Reach 2002 Reservoir 2005 Marriotts Ridge xxi Glenelg Country School is a non-sectarian private school that began in 1954 with primary grades In 1985 it added grades through 12 and had its first high school graduating class in 1989 xxii Chapelgate began with a freshmen class in 1991 and added grades 10 through 12 over the next three years, having its first high school graduating class in 1995 77 APPENDIX F Howard Community College Student Leaders 2004-Present Fall 2004 – Spring 2005 SGA President – Alex Nowodazkij SGA Vice President – Moaz Bulbul HCC Times Editor – John Hayes HCC Times Assistant Editor – Laura Bellomo SPB Chair – Katie Podson Fall 2005 – Spring 2006 SGA President – Daniel Pretz SGA Vice President – Eva Simonton HCC Times Editor Jacque Woods (Fall 2005) HCC Times Assistant Editor –Susan Kane SPB Chair – Sandee Clausen Fall 2006 – Spring 2007 SGA President – Diana Ponce SGA Vice President – Doug Arsenault HCC Times Editor – Jacque Woods (Fall 2006) HCC Times Editor - Amber L Gillette (Spring 2007) HCC Times Assistant Editor – Susan Kane (Fall 2006) SPB Chair – Sandee Clausen SPB Co-Chair – Gordon Wall Fall 2007 – Spring 2008 SGA President -Ritta Zeilah SGA Vice President - Elias Bechara HCC Times Editor – Allison Bucca HCC Times Assistant Editor – Amena Ali SPB Chair – Andrew Giotis SPB Co-chair – Justin Megaughey (Fall 2008) SPB Co-chair – Stephanie McKnight (Spring 2008) 78 Fall 2008- Spring 2009 SGA Vice President – Linda Morris SGA Vice President – Devin Greene HCC Times Editor – Robert Mang (Fall 2008) HCC Times Assistant Editor – Christina Soto (Fall 2008) HCC Times Editor – Christina Soto (Spring 2009) HCC Times Assistant Editor – Maureen Evans Arthurs (Spring 2009) SPB Chair – David G Orellana (Fall 2008) SPB Co-chair – Ashleigh Pettus (Fall 2008) SPB Chair – Ashleigh Pettus (Spring 2009) Fall 2009 – Spring 2010 SGA Vice President – Giancarlo Simpson SGA Vice President - Janet Lubov HCC Times Editor – Maureen Evans Arthurs HCC Times Assistant Editor – Kathleen Fanske SPB Chair – Zina Richardson SPB Co-chair – LaJuanda Johnson Fall 2010 – Spring 2011 SGA President – Giancarlo Simpson SGA Vice President - Janine Nelson (Fall 2010) SGA Vice President – Jaimie Wilder (Spring 2011) HCC Times Editor – Lauren Wood (Fall 2010) HCC Times Assistant Editor – Jaunyce Priester (Fall 2010) HCC Times Editor – Hasan Razeq (Spring 2011) HCC Times Assistant Editor – Wonsup Chung (Spring 2011) SPB Chair – Zina Richardson (Fall 2010) SPB Co-Chair – Kechi Amaefule (Fall 2010) SPB Chair – Kechi Amaefule (Spring 2011) SPB Co-chair – Lauren Perkins (Spring 2011) Fall 2011 – Spring 2012 SGA President – Danielle Zack SGA Vice President – Jennie Wang HCC Times Editor – Christopher Jones (Fall 2011) HCC Times Assistant Editor/Managing Editor – Tim Powling (Fall 2011) HCC Times Editor – Tim Powling (Spring 2012) HCC Times Assistant Editor – Elizabeth Dean SPB Chair – Diamond Harrell SPB Assistant Chair – Ronenio Hipos 79 APPENDIX G Organizational Chart 2011-12 80 ENDNOTES 81 Columbia Flier, Week of November 8, 2007, p 20 P Cornell email to V Marinich, June 9, 2008 Silas Craft Collegian Program brochure HCC Office of Human Resources Workforce Snapshot for FY2007 E Yun email to “Everybody,” February 19, 2007, p Idem The Baltimore Sun, “School Leader Steps Down,” February 20, 2007 The Baltimore Sun, July 6, 2007 Howard Community College Educational Foundation Executive/Finance & Investment Committee Minutes, November 30, 2004 10 Howard Community College Educational Foundation Full Board Meeting Minutes, June 15, 2004, p 11 Columbia Flier, May 10, 2007, p 24 12 The Columbia Flier, “Caution, cooperation called for on Belmont.” May 10, 2007, p 24 13 Speech made by Nicole Myers, Associate Curator of European Painting and Sculpture, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, October 1, 2011 14 The HCC Experience; Alumni and Friends Magazine Winter, 2008, p 15 K Hetherington email to Everybody, April 7, 2008 16 B Sandruck email to Faculty, January 24, 2011 17 Howard Community College About HCC, “New Fall Noncredit Courses at HCC,” July 16, 2008 18 Howard Community College President’s Update, September 12, 2008 19 K Hetherington email to “Everybody; Adjunct Faculty,” November 25, 2008 20 Birnbaum, Robert Management Fads in Higher Education San Francisco, Calif., Jossey Bass, 2000, p 103 21 National Public Radio, March 5, 2012 22 Howard Community College Admissions Office “International Students by Continent, Fall 2011.” 23 “International News,” Community Colleges for International Development, Inc., Spring 2011, p 12 24 “International News,” Community Colleges for International Development, Inc., Spring 2010, p.13 25 Howard Community College 2010 Annual Report to the Community, p 26 www.howardcc.edu/elearning 27 B Sandruck phone message to V Marinich, May 31, 2012 28 Howard Community College 2011-2012 Catalogue, pp iv,v 29 Howard County Times “Hopkins Lab: 70 Years of Innovation,” Week of May 31, 2012, p 13 30 L Heinbach email on behalf of A.Chase Martin to Faculty, November 30, 2011 31 Idem 32 Statistical data sent to V Marinich from S Frey, undated 33 T Hoos email to V Marinich, November 22, 2011 34 E Yun email on behalf of K Hetherington to Everybody July 6, 2009 35 K Hetherington email to Everybody August 26, 2009 36 HCC Board of Trustees email to Everybody, August 27, 2009 37 Columbia Flier, Week of April 30, 2009, p 38 Columbia Flier, “New program melds police, academy study,” May 28, 2009, p.4 39 Barack Obama, “Rebuilding Something Better,” Washington Post July 12, 2009 40 TIME, Vol 174, No 2, July 20, 2009, pp 48-51 41 Columbia Flier, Number 38, September 10, 2009, p 20 42 TIME, Vol 174, No 22, December 7, 2009 43 Howard County supplement of The Baltimore Sun, January 24, 2010, pp 1,3 44 Money, Volume 39, Number 7, August 2010, pp.68, 69 45 Idem 46 Howard County supplement of the Baltimore Sun, January 17, 2010, p.2 47 Columbia Flier, No 25, Week of June 9, 2011, p.4 48 Howard Community College, HCC Weekly News Link, May 20, 2011 49 Howard Community College 2007-2008 Student Handbook, p.81 50 Middle States Commission on Higher Education letter to Dr K Ketherington, June 24, 2011 51 S Baum email to V Marinich, October 25, 2011 52 The Columbia Flier “County to purchase historic Belmont estate.” June 30, 2011, p 14 53 Idem 54 Community College Week Volume 24, Number 8, November 28, 2011, page 55 HCC Board of Trustees email to Everybody, May 30, 2012 56 NPR, Tuesday, May 15, 2012 57 Conversation between D Burrill and V Marinich, July 3, 2008 58 Agenda for College Advisory Group, Columbia Archives, undated 59 James Rouse, “Potential for a College in Columbia,” Columbia Archives, undated 60 Idem 61 Idem 62 A Proposal to Establish Dag Hammarskjold College in Columbia, Md., April 26, 1967, p 16 P 102 64 Marx, Paul Jim Rouse New York; University Press of America, Inc., 2008, p 140 65 L Madaras interview with Dr Edward Cochran, June 4, 2003 66 Idem 67 “Board Formalizes Plans to Buy College Site.” Central Maryland News, June 23, 1966 68 Likens, Jeanne “A Stepping Stone: The History of Anne Arundel Community College.” Ph.D Dissertation, American University, 1981 69 McCan, Robert C “A Report from the President.” January, 1974 70 Howard Community College President’s 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This document is Volume V and it covers the life of the college from 2007 up to the summer of 2012, or as close as the data could provide For those who might have read the previous volumes, they... at the college, was ever so helpful in going through a lot of past data to provide me with a list of student leaders over the past several years It made sense to me to have some mention of students... endeavor would never have been possible For that, and so much more, I am grateful to them iii Introduction This volume constitutes the last entry of the history of Howard Community College, at least